Moral and social purpose of education

This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change.

This collection delivers an altogether unique perspective of research on American Indian/Alaska Native education policy and practice by creating a cultural lens, framed as tribal core values, to allow readers to rethink research on and about tribal populations.

This book charts the firsthand experiences and challenges faced by Maltese early childhood educators in the implementation of a novel approach to the curriculum: the replacement of a prescriptive curricula with one co-constructed by the educator and the child.

This volume discusses the emergence of information and communication technology (ICT)-based teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic as a potential alternative to traditional classroom-based learning.

Taking a close look at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores in detail how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience.

The fourth edition of Education, Equality and Human Rights has been fully updated to reflect the economic, political, social and cultural changes in educational and political policy and practice, as austerity continues and in the light of the EU referendum.

Originally published in 1975 How They Fared looks at some of the effects of 'going comprehensive'.

Ever the Leader gathers together selected speeches and writings from one of the great scholars and commentators of higher education.

Education and Racism is a concise and easily accessible primer for introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the field of race and education.

The book examines ancient religious traditions and modernity in a globalized Asia that is as much in need of a moral compass as it is economic development.

Like many languages across the globe, the Celtic languages today are experiencing varying degrees of minoritisation and revitalisation.

This book looks at Rabindranath Tagore's, experiments and journey as an educator and the influence of humanistic worldviews, nationalism and cosmopolitanism in his philosophy of education.

This authored text critically examines the theory and practice of college internship programs grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) to examine issues such as infrastructure, inclusion, and privilege through "e;provocative praxis,"e; a form of provocative inquiry that drives the ethics of pedagogy to envision student success both equitably and sustainably.

Dewey wrote his celebrated book on Democracy and Education over a hundred years ago.

From pressures to become economically efficient to calls to act as an agent of progressive social change, higher education is facing a series of challenges.

Disrupting assumptions and commonsensical ideologies of "e;service,"e; Service Learning as a Political Act in Education presents a clear and systematic analysis that unveils the rampant contradictions within the service learning field.

Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined.

This book analyses the value orientation system of education in Tibet and examines the special education interventions aimed at children with disabilities in the region.

This practical resource identifies complex issues associated with masculinity in higher education, providing administrators and faculty with research-based strategies for supporting the success of this student group.

Educators, teacher practitioners, and social activists have successfully used critical pedagogy as a tool to help marginalized students develop awareness and seek alternative solutions to their poor educational and socioeconomic situations.

Providing an original framework for the study of makerspaces in a literacy context, this book bridges the scholarship of literacy studies and STEM and offers a window into the practices that makers learn and interact with.

This edited collection challenges the common preoccupation with knowledge acquisition and academic achievement by comparing the aims and cultural beliefs which drive education in different countries throughout the world.

Despite vast possible differences across geographic locations, cultural practices, community values, and curricular priorities, there are everyday events that are intimately familiar in the context of early childhood care and education centres.

This is the first book to offer an overview of the ways in which the sweeping social and economic changes of the modern period have impacted on the education system.

Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns-rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States-Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States.

This book explores social topics and experiences that illustrate the various ways in which the family unit influences and impacts college students.

Detailing ethnographic research conducted in U.

Many scholars have turned to the groundbreaking critical research methodology, Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR), as a way to address both the political challenges and inherent power imbalances of conducting research with young people.

The Handbook of Transformative Learning The leading resource for the field, this handbook provides a comprehensive and critical review of more than three decades of theory development, research, and practice in transformative learning.

This volume offers a remarkable collection of theoretically and practically grounded conversations with internationally recognized scholars, who share their perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (GCE) in relation to university research, teaching, and learning.

Gender and Teaching provides a vivid, focused, and interactive overview of important gender issues in education today.

Exploring the British Indian model minority discourse, this book is the first empirical and theoretical examination of high achieving British Indian students' lived experiences of schooling, education, teaching, and learning.

This book invites readers to explore the complexity of becoming a teacher through the stories of two novice ELA teachers, Emelio and Rachel, over the course of their first two years.

Internationally recognized for his writing on educational leadership, and the ethics of educational leadership, Robert J.

This book explores the potential of school dining halls as spaces of social learning through interactions between students and teachers.

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today.

In a world where there are increasing concerns about graduate underemployment and likely career trajectories, it is not surprising that there is a significant body of literature examining graduate careers in post-industrial societies.

This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills.

This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education.

In industrialized societies the needs of people living in remote and sparsely populated areas are easily overlooked, whilst in developing countries the needs of the rural population are at once so obvious and so enormous that our practical concern is blunted.

Despite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the "e;how"e; of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked.

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This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level.

This book, first published in 1988, examines the development of secondary comprehensive education from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers is a concise fundamental guide on two related models of education research-emancipatory and participatory.

Like Letters in Running Water explores ways in which fiction (prose, drama, poetry, myth, fairytale) yields transformative insights for educational theory and practice.

To help researchers, educators and policy makers understand and support the development of 21st-century skills in schools, this edited volume explores the various iterations of "e;soft"e; skills with a particular focus on their implications for values and evaluates ways in which "e;soft skills"e; and "e;hard"e; values can be integrated.

This insightful book examines the differences in the perception of social status and how they impact youth mental health and well-being.